Hi Everyone, Okay, my scenario is seemingly simple (and I'm sure it is to most people). I have a Red Hat Linux box with content (about 12 GB) that needs to go on a USB drive. No problem, right? The only issue is that it is an NTFS drive. So, as a quick solution, I simply hook the drive up to a Win XP box and SFTP the content. Oooooh, bad idea. Characters get munged, transfers wrong (some wierd file extensions in the transfer) and it takes more time than it should. So, I had a couple of other ideas...what would you all do? 1.) Reformat USB drive with Partition Magin. Mount on Linux, copy over files. Convert USB drive from FAT32 to NTFS. 2.) Samba Solution? 3.) Go through and fix individual issues based on before and after checksum. Yeah, I thought this would be simple, but it's kinda a headache. What would you do to simply transfer content to a USB NTFS drive? Many thanks and have a terrific weekend! Best, DrS

I would try #1 first. Seems simplest. Probably do it quickly. If it does not work, seek other solutions. Guy

You may want to try the Captive NTFS driver. It will provide you with read/write access to NTFS without any negative side effects. The have RPM's available for most recent versions of RHL. http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ I have tried it out myself and it works like a champ. You can create files, edit files, delete, copy, and no data loss.

I personally have never experienced a problem writing to NTFS under linux, then again I haven't really had many times when I've needed to. My mate did lose a load of stuff though. I would try formatting the USB device as FAT under linux and leave it that way so that both OSs can read/write to it. A samba solution would not be any better than SFTP as it deals with network access. SCP (via SSH) would be better still to transfer fioles securely.